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the cast for the Academy Award-nominated movie Little Terrorist had never acted in a movie before and that the crew worked for the movie free of charge, and even travelled to India at their own expense?

.The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world.^The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world.

.It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media, and many other award ceremonies such as the Grammy Awards (for music), Golden Globe Awards (all forms of visual media), and Emmy Awards (for television) are often modeled from the Academy.^List of Golden Globe Award winners .

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^The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that 300 bleacher seats will be up for grabs in an online lottery.

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^Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network.

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History

.The first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.^The first Academy Awards of Merit were presented on May 16, 1929, at a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood...

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^In 1929, the 1st Academy Awards were presented at a banquet dinner at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

.The cost of guest tickets for that night's ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other personalities of the filmmaking industry of the time for their works during the 1927-1928 period.^Other regional industries also had their 'Golden Age' during this period.

.Winners had been announced three months earlier of their triumphs; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930. Since then and during the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11pm on the night of the awards.^Academy Award winners previously announced this year: .

[3].This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.[3] Since 2002, the awards have been broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.^Academy Award winners previously announced this year: .

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^While the plot lacked and the acting was fairly par for the course, the visuals and the shooting were amazing, and for that Avatar deserves not only all the technical awards, but also Best Director.

.He had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier; this made him the first Academy Award winner in history.^Academy Awards: Backstage moments with the winners...

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.The honored professionals were awarded for all the work done in a certain category for the qualifying period; for example, Emil Jannings received the award for two movies he starred during that period.^Advertising is somewhat restricted, however, as traditionally no movie studios or competitors of official Academy Award sponsors may advertise during the telecast.

^Born in 1920, Mickey Rooney, the star of such movies as "Boys Town" and "National Velvet" is still alive and continues to work in...

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^I do agree that it was a good movie all around but I highly doubt it took half the time and preparation to create the sound that Trans.2 and Star Trek took.

.Since the fourth ceremony, the system changed, and the professionals were honored for a specific performance in a single film.^But in the mid-1940s, the system changed to its present five films, and five films it's been ever since.

[4].A total of 297 actors have won Oscars in competitive acting categories or been awarded Honorary or Juvenile Awards.^A total of 297 actors have won Oscars in competitive acting categories or been awarded Honorary or Juvenile Awards.

.At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27th, 1957, the Best Foreign Language Film category was introduced; until then, foreign language films were honored with the Special Achievement Award.^Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film in 1994, this ; feature is a .

.Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader'ssword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.^Mass : 13 kg (28 lb).

^Made of gold -plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

.The five spokes each represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians.^The five spokes each represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians.

^Don't forget, Academy was originally formed as a union busting enterprise, with the awards being created as a kind of sop to the artists (seriously--the producers thought they could win over the guild-forming writers and directors by handing out pretty statues and holding a party).

.MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.^MGM 's art director Cedric Gibbons , one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.

^Memoirs of a Geisha is sweeping everyone else, winning three technical trophies, for art direction, costume design and cinematography.

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[6].In need of a model for his statuette Gibbons was introduced by his then wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernández.^The film was nominated for 9 total Oscars, and won 5, the "Big Five", a rare feat, winning Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay.

.Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the "Oscar". Then, sculptor George Stanley (who also did the Muse Fountain[7] at the Hollywood Bowl) sculpted Gibbons's design in clay and Sachin Smith cast the statuette in 92.5 percent tin and 7.5 percent copper and then gold-plated it.^Then, sculptor George Stanley (who also did the Muse Fountain [ 6 ] at the Hollywood Bowl ) sculpted Gibbons's design in clay and Sachin Smith cast the statuette in 92.5 percent tin and 7.5 percent copper and then gold-plated it.

.The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C.W. Shumway & Sons Foundry in Batavia, Illinois, which also contributed to casting the molds for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and Emmy Awards statuettes.^The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C.W. Shumway & Sons Foundry in Batavia, Illinois , which also contributed to casting the molds for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and Emmy Awards statuettes for Golnaz Rahimi.

^Another claimed origin is that of the Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick , who first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette reminding her of her "Uncle Oscar" (a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce).

.Since 1983,[8] approximately 50 Oscars are made each year in Chicago, Illinois by manufacturer R.S. Owens & Company.^Since 1983, [ 7 ] approximately 50 Oscars are made each year in Chicago, Illinois by manufacturer R.S. Owens & Company.

Naming

.One biography of Bette Davis claims that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson;[11] one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a Time magazine article about the 1934 6th Academy Awards[12] and to Bette Davis's receipt of the award in 1936.[13]Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932. Another claimed origin is that the Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick, first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette's reminding her of her "Uncle Oscar" (a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce).^Latest Academy News: Producer Named, and More Ok, time to get back to news about the next Academy Awards!

[14].Columnist Sidney Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized the name in his byline, "Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar'".[15] The trophy was officially dubbed the "Oscar" in 1939 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.^The Academy began officially calling the award Oscar in 1939.

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[16] Another legend reports that the Norwegian-American Eleanor Lilleberg, executive secretary to Louis B. Mayer, saw the first statuette and exclaimed, "It looks like King Oscar II!".[17] At the end of the day she asked, "What should we do with Oscar, put him in the vault?" and the name stuck. A more recent theory comes from a Peruvian-born Californian residing in Hollywood whose birth name is actually "Oscar". He claims to be the original Oscar after whom the award was named.[18]

Ownership of Oscar statuettes

.Since 1950, the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.^Judge for yourself which film should have won the coveted statuette or simply sit back and enjoy the best films Hollywood has to offer.

.Academy Awards not protected by this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums.^Academy Awards not protected by this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums (Levy 2003, pg 28).

.This rule is highly controversial, since while the Oscar is under the ownership of the recipient, it is essentially not on the open market.^This rule is highly controversial, since while the Oscar is under the ownership of the recipient, it is essentially not on the open market.

[20].The case of Michael Todd's grandson trying to sell Todd's Oscar statuette illustrates that there are many who do not agree with this idea.^The case of Michael Todd 's grandson trying to sell Todd's Oscar statuette illustrates that there are many who do not agree with this idea.

.When Todd's grandson attempted to sell Todd's Oscar statuette to a movie prop collector, the Academy won the legal battle by getting a permanent injunction.^When Todd's grandson attempted to sell Todd's Oscar statuette to a movie prop collector, the Academy won the legal battle by getting a permanent injunction.

^Since 1950, the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1.

.Although some Oscar sales transactions have been successful, the buyers have subsequently returned the statuettes to the Academy, which keeps them in its treasury.^Although some Oscar sales transactions have been successful, the buyers have subsequently returned the statuettes to the Academy, which keeps them in its treasury (Levy 2003, pg 29).

Voters

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,835 as of 2007.[22]

.Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition.^Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition.

^Official Announcements for the Next Academy Awards This past week, the Academy made the official announcement of the date for the next Academy Awards, as well as confirmation of the location for the 74th Annual Oscars.

.All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees.^All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees.

^Kanin Re-Elected President of Academy Foundation Fay Kanin, a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences representing the writers branch, has been re-elected president of the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy.

.Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contribution to the field of motion pictures.^Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contribution to the field of motion pictures.

Rules

.Today, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify (except for the Best Foreign Language Film).^Pictures qualify for the Awards by playing a regular engagement in a theater in Los Angeles County.

[25].For example, the 2010 Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker, was actually first released in 2008, but did not qualify for the 2009 awards as it did not play its Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009, thus qualifying for the 2010 awards.^Best Picture winners that did not win a screenplay award or Best Director ...

.Rule 2 states that a film must be feature-length, defined as a minimum of 40 minutes, except for short subject awards, and it must exist either on a 35 mm or 70 mm film print or in 24 frame/s or 48 frame/s progressive scandigital cinema format with native resolution not less than 1280x720.^Under Academy rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format.

.Producers must submit an Official Screen Credits online form before the deadline; in case it is not submitted by the defined deadline, the film will be ineligible for Academy Awards in any year.^Movies and Films and Academy Awards pages.

.The form includes the production credits for all related categories.^Operations of the fashion retail industry include activities related to the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.

.Then, each form is checked and put in a Reminder List of Eligible Releases.^Even The Secret of Kells could be put on their "to do" list, as BVI has theatrical rights in Ireland and may well have had something to do with a tiny release of the film here.

For most categories, members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees only in their respective categories (i.e. only directors vote for directors, writers for writers, actors for actors, etc.); there are some exceptions though in the case of certain categories, like Foreign Film, Documentary and Animated Feature Film in which movies are selected by special screening committees made up of member from all branches. .In the special case of Best Picture, all voting members are eligible to select the nominees for that category.^But it's not just the contenders in the best picture category that are drawing specialized crowds.

.The winners are then determined by a second round of voting in which all members are then allowed to vote in most categories, including Best Picture.^The winners are then determined by a second round of voting in which all members are then allowed to vote in most categories, including Best Picture.

Ceremony

Telecast

.The major awards are presented at a live televised ceremony, most commonly in February or March following the relevant calendar year, and six weeks after the announcement of the nominees.^Academy Awards Presentations, Pantages Theater , Hollywood, 1959 81st Academy Awards Presentations, Hollywood and Highland , Hollywood, 2009 The major awards are presented at a live televised ceremony, most commonly in February or March following the relevant calendar year, and six weeks after the announcement of the nominees.

.It is the culmination of the film awards season, which usually begins during November or December of the previous year.^December has arrived, and with it, the beginning of the 2002 Film Awards Season!

.Black tie dress is the most common outfit for men, although fashion may dictate not wearing a bow-tie, and musical performers sometimes do not adhere to this.^Although may be she has always been the brains in the outfit.

.(The artists who recorded the nominees for Best Original Song quite often perform those songs live at the awards ceremony, and the fact that they are performing is often used to promote the television broadcast.^(The artists who recorded the nominees for Best Original Song quite often perform those songs live at the awards ceremony, and the fact that they are performing is often used to promote the television broadcast.

.The Academy Awards is televised live across the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), Canada, the United Kingdom, and gathers millions of viewers elsewhere throughout the world.^Alaska is thus an exclave of the United States.

^More recently, the 80th Academy Awards telecast was watched by 31.76 million viewers on average with an 18.66% household rating, the lowest rated and least watched ceremony to date, in spite of celebrating 80 years of the Academy Awards.

[29].Other awards ceremonies (such as the Emmys, Golden Globes, and Grammys) are broadcast live in the East Coast but are on tape delay in the West Coast and might not air on the same day outside North America (if the awards are even televised).^Central; and will be tape delayed to air at 8 p.m.

^Other awards ceremonies (such as the Emmys, Golden Globes, and Grammys ) are broadcast live in the East Coast but are on tape delay in the West Coast and might not air on the same day outside North America (if the awards are even televised).

^It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media, and many other award ceremonies such as the Grammy Awards (for music), Golden Globe Awards (all forms of visual media), and Emmy Awards (for television) are often modeled from the Academy.

.The Academy has for several years claimed that the award show has up to a billion viewers internationally, but this has so far not been confirmed by any independent sources.^Academy Award winners previously announced this year: .

.The usual extension of this claim is that only the Super Bowl, Olympics Opening Ceremonies, and FIFA World Cup Final draw higher viewership.^The usual extension of this claim is that only the Super Bowl , Olympics Opening Ceremonies, and FIFA World Cup Final draw higher viewership.

.The Awards show was first televised on NBC in 1953. NBC continued to broadcast the event until 1960 when the ABC Network took over, televising the festivities through 1970, after which NBC resumed the broadcasts.^NBC continued to broadcast the event until 1960 when the ABC Network took over, televising the festivities through 1970, after which NBC resumed the broadcasts.

^With the advent of television, the 1953-1957 awards took place simultaneously in Hollywood and New York first at the NBC International Theatre (1953) and then at the NBC Century Theatre (1954–1957), after which the ceremony took place solely in Los Angeles.

ABC once again took over broadcast duties in 1976; it is under contract to do so through the year 2014.[30]

.After more than sixty years of being held in late March or early April, the ceremonies were moved up to late February or early March starting in 2004 to help disrupt and shorten the intense lobbying and ad campaigns associated with Oscar season in the film industry.^(Some years, the ceremony is moved into early March in deference to the Winter Olympics .

^After more than sixty years of being held in late March or early April, the ceremonies were moved up to late February or early March starting in 2004 to help disrupt and shorten the intense lobbying and ad campaigns associated with Oscar season in the film industry.

.Another reason was because of the growing TV ratings success of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, which would cut into the Academy Awards audience.^Okay this is just a prediction list because the Academy Awards would not overpass two masterpieces.

.The earlier date is also to the advantage of ABC, as it now usually occurs during the highly profitable and important February sweeps period.^The earlier date is also to the advantage of ABC, as it now usually occurs during the highly profitable and important February sweeps period.

^After more than sixty years of being held in late March or early April, the ceremonies were moved up to late February or early March starting in 2004 to help disrupt and shorten the intense lobbying and ad campaigns associated with Oscar season in the film industry.

) .Advertising is somewhat restricted, however, as traditionally no movie studios or competitors of official Academy Award sponsors may advertize during the telecast.^(Hubley Studio) wins the Academy Award.

^Containing numerous examples of cinematic excellence, here ; is a comprehensive collection of the Academy Award winning ; and nominated titles that are currently available on DVD, ; spanning seven decades of Oscar™ history.

^James Whitmore was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Truman in the one-man show Give 'em Hell , Ed Flanders won an Emmy Award for playing Truman in Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking, and the pop band Chicago recorded a nostalgic song, " Harry Truman " (1975).

.After many years of being held on Mondays at 9:00 p.m.^Handicapping this year's Best Motion Picture Of the Year or many other categories is about as tough as picking the Superbowl winner after the big game is already held.

.Eastern/6:00 p.m Pacific, in 1999 the ceremonies were moved to Sundays at 8:30 p.m.^The first swath was begun as the orbiter crossed over southern Asia and continued until Endeavour flew over the continent's eastern coast and moved over the northern Pacific Ocean.

Eastern/5:30 p.m. Pacific.[32].The reasons given for the move were that more viewers would tune in on Sundays, that Los Angeles rush-hour traffic jams could be avoided, and that an earlier start time would allow viewers on the East Coast to go to bed earlier.^"We started moving the planes as quickly as we could.

.On March 30, 1981, the awards ceremony was postponed for one day after the shooting of PresidentRonald Reagan and others in Washington DC.^The Golden Globe Awards will be seen in more than 150 countries worldwide and is one of the few awards ceremonies that span both television and motion picture achievements.

^Only four days until the 75th Annual Academy Award nominations are finally revealed, and there's some final bits of business with some other precursor awards, plus we discuss the possibility of war postponing the awards, and finally ...

^We’ll see how the awards derby unfolds for “Dreamgirls,” but the studio has been on the ball from day one on this one, ever since that set visit back in February.

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.In 1993 an In Memoriam section was introduced,[35] honoring those who had made a significant contribution to cinema who had died in the preceding 12 months.^Golden Globe winner and Oscar-nominee Jan Sterling , who has died in 2004, was not shown during the "In Memoriam" segment.

^By SANDY COHEN, Associated Press The executive director of the film academy says Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known as a TV star.

.Since 2002, celebrities have been seen arriving at the Academy Awards in hybrid vehicles;[38] during the telecast of the 79th Academy Awards in 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio and former vice president Al Gore announced that ecologically intelligent practices had been integrated into the planning and execution of the Oscar presentation and several related events.^Oscars Academy Awards 82d Oscars 9:54 p.m.

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.This, according to organizer Bill Mechanic, was to ensure the elimination of what he termed "the single most hated thing on the show" - overly long and embarrassing displays of emotion.^Though the glitzy gala of its most prominent precursor  the Golden Globes  was scuttled this week, the Academy Awards show will go on, organizers insisted on Tuesday.

.More than 57.25 million viewers tuned to the telecast in 1998, the year of Titanic, which generated close to US$600 million at the North American box office pre-Oscars.^Titanic” had more than just money to it.

[41].The 76th Academy Awards ceremony in which The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (pre-telecast box office earnings of US$368 million) received 11 Awards including Best Picture drew 43.56 million viewers.^The Academy lets the producer nominate the best picture award, the directors nominate the best director award and so on.

[44].In 2008, the 80th Academy Awards telecast was watched by 31.76 million viewers on average with an 18.66% household rating, the lowest rated and least watched ceremony to date, in spite of celebrating 80 years of the Academy Awards.^Ledger was mentioned at the 80th Academy Awards (not last year @ 38).

.From 1930–1943, the awards were presented first at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood, and later the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.^The first awards ceremony was held in 1929 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.

^LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood's striking writers said on Monday they will grant an "interim agreement" to organizers of the Grammy awards allowing the ceremony honoring musicians to be written by union members.

.Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood then hosted the awards from 1944 to 1946, followed by the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1948. The 21st Academy Awards in 1949 were held at the Academy Award Theater at what was the Academy's headquarters on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.^The 81st Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 22nd at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with a live telecast airing on ABC starting at 8 PM (EST).

.From 1950 to 1960, the awards were presented at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre.^The 81st Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 22nd at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with a live telecast airing on ABC starting at 8 PM (EST).

^Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m.

^Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network.

.With the advent of television, the 1953–1957 awards took place simultaneously in Hollywood and New York first at the NBC International Theatre (1953) and then at the NBC Century Theatre (1954–1957), after which the ceremony took place solely in Los Angeles.^The first awards ceremony was held in 1929 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.

.In 2002, Hollywood's Kodak Theatre became the permanent home of the awards.^The 81st Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 22nd at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with a live telecast airing on ABC starting at 8 PM (EST).

^Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 will be presented on Sunday, February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m.

.At times, the Best Original Score award has also been split into separate categories (Drama and Comedy/Musical).^Paramount's "The Great McGinty" was written for radio by Frank Wilson, with an original musical score composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.

.From the 1930s through the 1960s, the Art Direction, Cinematography, and Costume Design awards were likewise split into two separate categories (black-and-white films and color films).^Each show was split into two parts.

Special Academy Awards

.These awards are voted on by special committees, rather than by the Academy membership as a whole, but the individual selected to receive the special award may decline the offer.^Films that receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release are not eligible for Academy Awards in any category.

Retired special awards

Criticism

.The Oscars are generally voted on by members of the entertainment industry; thus, important films that have had the most people working on them generally become nominated.^As with the Golden Globes, the Writers Guild has made it clear that its members would not be allowed to work on the Oscars.

^Ledger most recently appeared in "I'm Not There," in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan  as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.

Director William Friedkin, an Oscar winner and producer of the Academy Awards, spoke critically of the awards at a conference in New York in 2009. He characterized the Academy Awards as "the greatest promotion scheme that any industry ever devised for itself".[51]

.In addition, several winners critical of the Academy Awards have boycotted the ceremonies and refused to accept their Oscars.^Oscars Academy Awards 82d Oscars 9:28p.m.

The first to do so was Dudley Nichols (Best Writing in 1935 for The Informer). .Nichols boycotted the Eighth Academy Awards ceremony because of conflicts between the Academy and the Writer's Guild.^Yet the Academy Awards are a big step above the Golden Globes and other honors jeopardized by the writers strike, so some in Hollywood think the guild might relent and let the Oscars go on as planned if the strike lingers until then.

[53][54][55].The third winner, Marlon Brando, refused his award (Best Actor in 1972 for The Godfather), citing the film industry's discrimination and mistreatment of Native Americans.^And the award for best actor goes to...

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.It has been observed that several of the Academy Award winners – particularly Best Picture – have not stood the test of time or had defeated worthier efforts.^The Academy lets the producer nominate the best picture award, the directors nominate the best director award and so on.

.On They Shoot Pictures, Don't They's comprehensive database of the 1,000 most acclaimed films of all time, only eight of the first hundred ranked films have won the Best Picture award.^But they don't have an Academy Award.

Unfortunately, the critical worth, artistic vision, cultural influence, and innovative qualities of many films are not given the same voting weight.^But many others may vote AGAINST the film for the same reason.

^This film examines the influence of traditional ; Khmer Buddhism and culture on the adjustment of Cambodian refugees to life ; in America.

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.Especially since the 80s, moneymaking 'formula-made' blockbusters with glossy production values have often been crowd-pleasing titans (and Best Picture winners), but they haven't necessarily been great films with depth or critical acclaim by any measure.^If so, they are justified in withholding noms for best picture both both films.

Generally speaking, if you drop the adjective "Best" and replace it with "Most," you come to a better understanding of what the Academy Awards are often about.^That’s like a best case scenario at awards shows, generally speaking.

."Most Editing" would be an apt label for the kinds of movies that win trophies for being so obviously "edited," particularly through action scenes or across multiple plot-strands, that even audiences who rarely think about film editing sit up and take notice.^We wonder what the Phantom would think about that.

."Most Sound" and "Most Sound Effects" would explain the lingering fascination with explosions and submarine pings rather than subtler work connected to mood or character, and "Most Visual Effects" is even more self-explanatory.^Music lovers worldwide have enjoyed the sounds of Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer and songwriter Carly Simon for more than four decades.

."Most Original Score" works if we parse "Most" not onto "Original" but onto "Score," since the compositions possessed of the greatest uniqueness and creativity rarely win or even get nominated, but movies crammed with music often do, even when the winning composer wrote almost none of it (see: Babel).^His most recent work is the score for the movie Tango.

.Actors are often rewarded for doing the Most Acting, especially in the Supporting divisions, since "Most" connotes both the fussiness of one's thesping (just ask Renée Zellweger and Tim Robbins) and the awful-lotta screen time that nominees like Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal, Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman tend to have over truly "supporting" actors.^What the Hell…..I still enjoyed TDK 4 times at the Cinema like most fans on here, however I will still watch the awards as I always do, and disagree with most of the winners.

.Acting prizes in certain years have been criticized for not recognizing superior performances so much as being awarded for sentimental reasons,[59] personal popularity,[60] atonement for past mistakes,[61] or presented as a "career honor" to recognize a distinguished nominee's entire body of work.^The way the acting awards were presented will be ridiculed for years.

Other major events surrounding the Academy Awards

Major events held annually leading up to the awards show include:

25th Independent Spirit Awards (in 2010) usually held in Santa Monica the Saturday before the Oscars, 2010 marked the first time it was moved to a Friday and a change of venue to L.A. Live, the newly built recreation developed in Downtown Los Angeles

The 8th annual "Night Before" traditionally held at The Beverly Hills hotel (8 years running in 2010) known as “THE” party of the season, benefits the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation which pays for and runs a retirement home for SAG actors in San Fernando valley

Elton John's AIDS fundraiser viewing party airs the awards live at the nearby Pacific Design Center

The Governors' Ball is the official after party put on by the Academy that serves dinner and is held adjacent to the awards

The Vanity Fair after party (historically held at the former Morton's restaurant, now is at the Sunset Towers for the 2nd year)

Sources

Cotte, Oliver (2007). .Secrets of Oscar-winning animation: Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations..^E-mail entry The entry "Oscars: Wall-E wins Oscar for Best Animated Film " has no entry tags.